DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION OF Kepler-452b: A 1.6 Rφ SUPER EARTH EXOPLANET IN THE HABITABLE ZONE OF A G2 STAR

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作者
Jenkins, Jon M. [1 ]
Twicken, Joseph D. [1 ,2 ]
Batalha, Natalie M. [1 ]
Caldwell, Douglas A. [1 ,2 ]
Cochran, William D. [3 ,4 ]
Endl, Michael [3 ,4 ]
Latham, David W. [5 ]
Esquerdo, Gilbert A. [5 ]
Seader, Shawn [1 ,2 ]
Bieryla, Allyson [5 ]
Petigura, Erik [6 ]
Ciardi, David R. [7 ]
Marcy, Geoffrey W. [6 ]
Isaacson, Howard [6 ]
Huber, Daniel [2 ,8 ,9 ]
Rowe, Jason F. [1 ,2 ]
Torres, Guillermo [5 ]
Bryson, Stephen T. [1 ]
Buchhave, Lars [5 ,10 ]
Ramirez, Ivan [3 ,4 ]
Wolfgang, Angie [11 ]
Li, Jie [1 ,2 ]
Campbell, Jennifer R. [12 ]
Tenenbaum, Peter [1 ,2 ]
Sanderfer, Dwight [1 ]
Henze, Christopher E. [1 ]
Catanzarite, Joseph H. [1 ,2 ]
Gilliland, Ronald L. [13 ]
Borucki, William J. [1 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[2] SETI Inst, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, McDonald Observ, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[4] Univ Texas Austin, Dept Astron, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[5] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[6] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[7] CALTECH, NASA, Exoplanet Sci Inst, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[8] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, Sydney Inst Astron SIfA, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[9] Aarhus Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Stellar Astrophys Ctr, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
[10] Univ Copenhagen, Nat Hist Museum Denmark, Ctr Star & Planet Format, DK-1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
[11] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[12] NASA, Wyle Labs, Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA
[13] Penn State Univ, Ctr Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
来源
ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL | 2015年 / 150卷 / 02期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
methods: statistical; planets and satellites: detection; stars: fundamental parameters; stars:; individual; (Kepler-452b; KIC; 8311864; KOI7016.01); POTENTIAL TRANSIT SIGNALS; FALSE POSITIVES; SOPHIE VELOCIMETRY; PLANETARY SYSTEM; BLEND SCENARIOS; HARPS SEARCH; CANDIDATES; COMPANION; IDENTIFICATION; QUARTERS;
D O I
10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/56
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report on the discovery and validation of Kepler-452b, a transiting planet identified by a search through the 4 years of data collected by NASA's Kepler Mission. This possibly rocky 1.63(-0.20)(+0.23) R-circle plus every 384.843 (+0.007)(-0.012) days, the longest orbital period for a small (R-P < 2 R-circle plus) transiting exoplanet to date. The likelihood that this planet has a rocky composition lies between 49% and 62%. The star has an effective temperature of 5757 +/- 85 K and a log g of 4.32 +/- 0.09. At a mean orbital separation of 1.046 (-0.015) (+0.019) AU, this small planet is well within the optimistic habitable zone of its star (recent Venus/early Mars), experiencing only 10% more flux than Earth receives from the Sun today, and slightly outside the conservative habitable zone (runaway greenhouse/maximum greenhouse). The star is slightly larger and older than the Sun, with a present radius of 1.11 (-0.09) (+0.15) R-circle dot and an estimated age of similar to 6 Gyr. Thus, Kepler-452b has likely always been in the habitable zone and should remain there for another similar to 3 Gyr.
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